Deployer VS bref

Compare Deployer vs bref and see what are their differences.

Deployer

The PHP deployment tool with support for popular frameworks out of the box (by deployphp)

bref

Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda (by brefphp)
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Deployer bref
47 40
10,265 2,971
0.7% 1.3%
8.0 9.4
7 days ago 6 days ago
PHP PHP
MIT License MIT License
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Deployer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Deployer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-27.

bref

Posts with mentions or reviews of bref. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-01.
  • A bank runs serverless with PHP and AWS Lambda
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Nov 2023
    As you can see on the website (https://bref.sh/) there's 13 billion monthly AWS Lambda invocations using Bref (PHP).
  • Configuring OpenSSL 3 to sign an Apple Passbook?
    2 projects | /r/openssl | 4 Jul 2023
    I have a PHP application (running on Amazon Linux via Bref on Lambda) which has been signing Apple passbooks no problem. I've trying to do various upgrades which includes moving to AWS Linux 2023 which uses OpenSSL 3.
  • Bref + SQS - Runtime.unknown
    2 projects | /r/PHP | 29 Apr 2023
    Your best bet is to post an issue on https://github.com/brefphp/bref
    2 projects | /r/PHP | 29 Apr 2023
  • Software architecture applied to PHP
    2 projects | /r/PHP | 3 Mar 2023
    multi threading php isnt a burden. laravel with a supervisor + redis + queues works out-of-the-box. you can even run it on lambda (vapor or bref.sh) with almost no hassle.
    2 projects | /r/PHP | 3 Mar 2023
    On Lambda you can either use containers or bref which is a layer that you add to your Lambda and it provides the binaries and other stuff you need to run php.
  • Project advice
    2 projects | /r/PHP | 16 Jan 2023
    To generate resource on AWS, you can use aws-sdk into a lambda. While Node or Python is more widely used, you can use PHP bref.sh and the PHP AWS SDK to achieve the same outcome. You'll want to use serverless framework (https://www.serverless.com) .
  • Ideas for minimum PHP pipeline for a small team
    7 projects | /r/PHP | 30 Dec 2022
    If you’re deploying in AWS and depending on your app I’d highly recommend using https://bref.sh/. When we changed it made our deploy pipeline so much simpler and our AWS bill much cheaper. Plus infrastructure as code is so useful (we don’t have dedicated dev ops in a team of about 20). Things like adding GD, upgrading PHP, or even adding a redis server become 1 (or a few) lines of change which you can PR and test on staging just like other code changes.
  • Is fargate the right choice for my apps?
    2 projects | /r/aws | 27 Dec 2022
    For Lambda, look into https://bref.sh/. For us, running on Lambda was always way cheaper than everything else. However, if you have massive scale that calculation may not hold up.
  • Laravel Vapor, security information?
    2 projects | /r/laravel | 25 Oct 2022
    Failing that, looks like Bref will be the option in place of Vapor.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Deployer and bref you can also consider the following projects:

Envoy - Elegant SSH tasks for PHP.

lambda-debug-proxy - A proxy for piping AWS lambda input payload+context to and returning a response from a local dev environment for debugging.

Rocketeer

Magallanes - The PHP Deployment Tool

serverless-offline - Emulate AWS λ and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project

Plum - A deployer library for PHP 5.3

Pomander - Deploy your PHP with PHP. Inspired by Capistrano and Vlad.

PHPloy - PHPloy - Incremental Git (S)FTP deployment tool that supports multiple servers, submodules and rollbacks.

docker-lambda - Docker images and test runners that replicate the live AWS Lambda environment

Laravel - The Laravel Framework.

ext-openswoole - Programmatic server for PHP with async IO, coroutines and fibers

Lumen - The Laravel Lumen Framework.